Monday, 19 February 2018

Invitation to the KZN Provincial Summit on Climate Change

CLIMATE CHANGE PROVINCIAL HEARINGS

The South Durban Community Environmental
Alliance (SDCEA) hosted the first Climate Change Provincial Hearings on the 17th
November 2017. Succeeding the Climate Hearing theme ‘Preventing dangerous
anthropogenic interference with the climate systems’, we will be targeting
major issues that pose detrimental threats to our environment and the lives of
people.

The hearing encompasses six outstanding
themes: Air Quality and Health, Energy, Livelihoods, Poverty and Inequality, poor
development, and oil and gas exploration.

Opening up new offshore areas to drilling,
risks permanent damage to our oceans and beaches without reducing our dependence
on oil. If these plans were to go ahead, the climate crisis which is not
factored in and taken seriously would be intensified and South Africa’s own
carbon-budget strategy of decreasing greenhouse gas emissions by 34% by 2020
would be impaired and impossible. The Climate Crisis is in fact a reality and
should be taken seriously- now more than ever.

Presentations will be made by key speakers who
will present the facts, why we should phase out fossil fuels and put an end to
oil and gas.